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Computer techies, can you answer this question?

 
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Computer techies, can you answer this question?
I have a motherboard with an onboard sound device as well as a sound card I placed on it. I was wondering, if I eliminate the sound card and use the onboard device would it free up resources and speed my system?
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
I have a motherboard with an onboard sound device as well as a sound card I placed on it. I was wondering, if I eliminate the sound card and use the onboard device would it free up resources and speed my system?
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yes
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yes. but the sound card is likely a better card, so go into Cmos and disable the onboard.
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
It is likely. List me the specs of your PC and the requirements of your soundcard.

The on-board device is optimized to perform the best with your motherboard, however, it's not the best sound.

The soundcard should give you better audio, but it's not optimized for your motherboard, so it may eat more resources.

Finally, soundcards shouldn't eat much resource anyhow.

-AKL
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yes. but the sound card is likely a better card, so go into Cmos and disable the onboard.
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cmos??
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yes. but the sound card is likely a better card, so go into Cmos and disable the onboard.



cmos??
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ok BIOS. sorry... what ever... lol.
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
what about video card vs. onboard video device. Which one would speed up your computer?
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get a Mac
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
yes. but the sound card is likely a better card, so go into Cmos and disable the onboard.



cmos??


ok BIOS. sorry... what ever... lol.
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lol... Old timer showing his age... (jk)
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
what about video card vs. onboard video device. Which one would speed up your computer?
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I recently removed the video card (I hate additional noise) and went with the internal one - no difference if you don`t play games and don`t watch 20-15 GB movies. Everything works as before.

As for the sound card, modern motherboards rarely have sound issues - If you don`t have hi tech equipment and at least 320 kb/s quality mp3, you won`t notice any difference.
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get a Mac
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
Amatuers, shut the fuck up. Shit won't free up anything cept some little bitty memory. Won't make shit "faster" since the amount oof memory yer talking about is the equivalent to a drop in the bucket.
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
Amatuers, shut the fuck up. Shit won't free up anything cept some little bitty memory. Won't make shit "faster" since the amount oof memory yer talking about is the equivalent to a drop in the bucket.
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
yes. but the sound card is likely a better card, so go into Cmos and disable the onboard.



cmos??


ok BIOS. sorry... what ever... lol.


lol... Old timer showing his age... (jk)
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fuckin A man... I remember when this crap required screwing around with little ittty bitty jumpers. Remember when motherboards came with Jumper Settings ? not this plug and pray crap they do today...
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
yes. but the sound card is likely a better card, so go into Cmos and disable the onboard.



cmos??


ok BIOS. sorry... what ever... lol.


lol... Old timer showing his age... (jk)



fuckin A man... I remember when this crap required screwing around with little ittty bitty jumpers. Remember when motherboards came with Jumper Settings ? not this plug and pray crap they do today...
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I do... it does not seem so long ago... Or I am getting old as well... lol
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
Amatuers, shut the fuck up. Shit won't free up anything cept some little bitty memory. Won't make shit "faster" since the amount oof memory yer talking about is the equivalent to a drop in the bucket.
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Yea the memocy stuff is bullshit. However, the PC may start booting faster with the internal video/sound due to the better compatibility.
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Amatuers, shut the fuck up. Shit won't free up anything cept some little bitty memory. Won't make shit "faster" since the amount oof memory yer talking about is the equivalent to a drop in the bucket.
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ok mr. Pro.. btw you hit post twice... and for the record, having two sound cards that probably share allot of IRQs and system resources are ABSOLUTELY going to slow the system down. Espescually in a shitty operating system like windows that is designed to run with one. there are solutions to do it for audio recording needs and such, how ever as a personal computer there is no point at all in having two sound cards, it will hog up resources, hdd space, interupt requests, ( thats IRQ btw ), virtual memory, drivers, create false and dead ultimately useless registry entries, piss off the volume control pannel.... need i go on ??

ok. sit down.
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My dad threw down the money for the extra 256k of ram and the CGA (that's FOUR color for you younger kids) gfx back in the day... that's how I knew he really loved me...

Last Edited by Least Servant on 11/30/2010 12:16 AM
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
Amatuers, shut the fuck up. Shit won't free up anything cept some little bitty memory. Won't make shit "faster" since the amount oof memory yer talking about is the equivalent to a drop in the bucket.
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lol... cranky...

Perhaps you are correct, but any contention in the bus is just one more interrupt to manage. So it is not incorrect to say it will improve performance.

The question is whether it is noticable. Most likely not much, but who knows anything about his system or his drivers or his OS or his configuration.
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
Amatuers, shut the fuck up. Shit won't free up anything cept some little bitty memory. Won't make shit "faster" since the amount oof memory yer talking about is the equivalent to a drop in the bucket.
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As someone familiar with modern systems... I'd have to agree the drag of an extra card slot on the MOBO should be no big deal if it's working properly... that's WHY you have hardware acceleration after all...

Booting of the drivers should be no biggie either if working properly...

You should keep the card unless you need the card slot or you are having power supply issues... with the idea that it will give you better sound performance and MAY actually be faster since you don't know if the MOBO sound is partially software and shares the memory with the CPU, etc...

So go with whatever device is a better sound producer...

Last Edited by Least Servant on 11/30/2010 12:20 AM
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Amatuers, shut the fuck up. Shit won't free up anything cept some little bitty memory. Won't make shit "faster" since the amount oof memory yer talking about is the equivalent to a drop in the bucket.
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odance
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My dad threw down the money for the extra 256k of ram and the CGA (that's FOUR color for you younger kids) gfx back in the day... that's how I knew he really loved me...
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i had to of those. Computer would not boot with both in, I used to hot swap the second memory expansion card with my I/O card. hehehe. with gloves so as not to get shocked. I remember how impressed i was with my first I/O card. I could not believe they got the FDD, Serial, game port, LPT, and Floppy all on one card. blew me away... that and my 10 mb hdd. I was the coolest kid on the block, I could boot with out a floppy !

good old days... mouse ? WTF is that ? thats only good for Zerox machines..
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My dad threw down the money for the extra 256k of ram and the CGA (that's FOUR color for you younger kids) gfx back in the day... that's how I knew he really loved me...



i had to of those. Computer would not boot with both in, I used to hot swap the second memory expansion card with my I/O card. hehehe. with gloves so as not to get shocked. I remember how impressed i was with my first I/O card. I could not believe they got the FDD, Serial, game port, LPT, and Floppy all on one card. blew me away... that and my 10 mb hdd. I was the coolest kid on the block, I could boot with out a floppy !

good old days... mouse ? WTF is that ? thats only good for Zerox machines..
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I remember when I was horrified that KQ:VII was BIGGER than my HD... :(

Not nearly as bad a feeling as realizing I couldn't play Falcon 3.0 because my CPU didn't have a math co-processor. putin
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
get a Mac
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me too sadly... I grew up hating everything apple stood for. then they switched to Intel based systems and now Im typing on one.
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Computer techies, can you answer this question?
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Yes.

And to your second question; most probably.

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me too sadly... I grew up hating everything apple stood for. then they switched to Intel based systems and now Im typing on one.
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Must feel good overpaying for a PC with a linux variant.

Well, at least you're not sucking MS's tiny wang. Intel is gaying up the scene hangin around apple though.
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
No because the on board is a virtual device requires more software running than a physical sound card.
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Re: Computer techies, can you answer this question?
Amatuers, shut the fuck up. Shit won't free up anything cept some little bitty memory. Won't make shit "faster" since the amount oof memory yer talking about is the equivalent to a drop in the bucket.


ok mr. Pro.. btw you hit post twice... and for the record, having two sound cards that probably share allot of IRQs and system resources are ABSOLUTELY going to slow the system down. Espescually in a shitty operating system like windows that is designed to run with one. there are solutions to do it for audio recording needs and such, how ever as a personal computer there is no point at all in having two sound cards, it will hog up resources, hdd space, interupt requests, ( thats IRQ btw ), virtual memory, drivers, create false and dead ultimately useless registry entries, piss off the volume control pannel.... need i go on ??

ok. sit down.
 Quoting: Taz

if you have a sound card you disable the on board sound through the bios,it frees up resources on your motherboard if you use a dedicated sound card,so I've been told.





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